ABOUT US

Based in Paris, Metori Capital Management is an asset management company founded in November 2016. Its founders are seasoned professionals in fund management and capital markets, lifted out from Lyxor Asset Management (Société Générale Group).

Metori’s primary objective is to accelerate the development of the Epsilon program. Launched in 1994, Epsilon is one of the oldest managed futures program in Europe. Under the tenure at Lyxor of Nicolas Gaussel as CIO, Guillaume Jamet as principal manager and Laurent Le Saint as product manager, the program has won multiple awards. Metori now manages over 400M$ in the Epsilon program.

Metori is fully owned by its founding partners. It brings together 12 experienced professionals with complementary skills. The company is an entrepreneurial venture that aims to service its investors through focusing resources on research, fund management, risk control and business development. It operates with a robust infrastructure and carefully selected service providers.

Metori started operating in May 2017. It is regulated by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in France, registered as a CPO and CTA with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and member of the National Futures Association (NFA). The company is also registered with the AMF and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as benchmark administrator.

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FOUNDING PARTNERS

Nicolas GAUSSEL

CEO and co-CIO

Nicolas has 20 years of experience in finance, including 15 years in asset management. He has been Lyxor’s CIO since 2012, overseeing 100+ portfolio managers, researchers and financial engineers. Prior to this, Nicolas held various management positions, notably in Asia. Nicolas holds an engineering degree from French Ecole Centrale de Paris, and a PhD in Economics from Paris La Sorbonne. He has been a quantitative finance lecturer in different master programs and contributed to various articles and academic conferences.

Guillaume JAMET

Principal Manager and co-CIO

Guillaume has been Epsilon’s Principal Manager since 2013. He joined SG Group in 2003 and occupied various key positions in the quant domain. He gave frequent lectures on quantitative finance at the Paris ENSAE. Prior to this, Guillaume worked 5 years teaching mathematics at University Paris VI and published his research in top tier international journals. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics and Master in Applied Probability and Finance from University of Paris VI, and holds the title of “Agrégé de Mathématiques”.

Laurent LE SAINT

Managing Partner & Head of Development

Laurent has 20 years of experience in capital markets and asset management. He has been with Lyxor since 2012, as head of product development for systematic, flexible and debt funds. He was previously at Société Générale Hong Kong since 2009. He started his career in 1996 as a financial engineer at SG’s Equity Derivatives division, where he developed a large fund-derivatives and financing business. Laurent graduated from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris in 1994, with a Master in Corporate Finance and Capital Markets.

Philippe CARPENTIER

Senior Fund Manager

Philippe has been a quantitative fund manager at Lyxor since 2013, specialized in smart beta and quantitative fixed income. Prior to this, Philippe has been a quantitative researcher for the derivatives division of Société Générale from 2004 to 2013, applying his expertise to various asset classes. He started his career in 2003 at HSBC as a quant analyst in the model validation team. Philippe holds engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE, and a Master degree in applied mathematics from the University Paris VI (Jussieu).

Guillaume DERMER

CRO & COO

Guillaume has ten years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Metori, he worked within Oliver Wyman’s Finance and Risk practice where he conducted strategic assignments for financial institutions, exchanges and regulators in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He started his career at BNP Paribas trading equity derivatives, before joining BearingPoint’s Capital Market practice. Guillaume holds an engineering degree from Supélec and a Master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from Wollongong University (Australia).

Long-established team

Guillaume Jamet and Nicolas have worked together since 2001. In 2011, Nicolas asked Guillaume to take over Epsilon’s research and appointed him as Fund Principal in 2013. Laurent and Nicolas met in Asia back in 2010, and Laurent joined Lyxor in 2012 to steer the development of quant strategies. Since 2012, Guillaume, Laurent and Nicolas have worked closely together. Philippe met Nicolas and Guillaume Jamet during his tenure at the SG Capital Market quant research team. He eventually joined Lyxor where he contributed to the extraordinary growth of its quantitative fixed income program. In 2016 the team set out to find a suitable fifth partner to take responsibility for risk and operations. They chose Guillaume Dermer and he has since made a key contribution to the launch of Metori.

INVESTMENT VALUES

Research Driven

We are research-driven investors. We design and implement strategies with rigor and discipline. Our investment team cumulate over 50 years of research in financial markets, keeping strong academic connections to stay at the forefront of financial innovation.

Global Approach

Single markets cannot be analysed in isolation. Global factors emerge and unfold with market sentiment, economic and monetary environments, geopolitics. Our research aims at identifying such factors and their weights, how they change, through a holistic statistical approach.

Focus on market dynamics

In an ever-changing market environment, we aim to create value by taking advantage of market dynamics. Rather than trying to outsmart millions of market participants, we analyse large datasets to identify the direction in which market forces are driving asset prices.

Discipline

Research-driven investing requires solid guiding principles. We favour parsimony over inflation of parameters (i.e. over complex black boxes). We build and implement investment models that have sound statistical, economical and behavioural justifications, that can be cross-validated over multiple time windows and investment universes.

PRODUCT RANGE

Our investment program, Epsilon, is the latest evolution of a strategy that started in 1994. The current version of the model was developed by G. Jamet and N. Gaussel from 2011 to 2012, and has been successfully implemented since late 2012. The program is available in a suite of Lyxor products. It can also be delivered by Metori through managed accounts, dedicated funds or club funds.

Epsilon Managed Futures

Full investment universe (bonds and interest rates, equities, currencies and commodities). Volatility budget of 15%. Available in an Alternative Investment Fund and dedicated mandates.

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Metori Capital Management is a société par actions simplifiée registered in France with its registered office at 9 rue de la Paix, 75002 Paris (registered no. 853 656 541 RCS Paris). Metori is authorised and regulated by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (“AMF”) in France (reference no. GP-17000002), registered as a CTA and CPO with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) and a member of the National Futures Association (“NFA”) in the United States of America (NFA ID 0501245).

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